Chapter Summaries

Shi Pojun fled through the shadow side of the Ancient Heavenly Court Ruins while trying to erase Chen Fei’s tracking imprints, but he lost his way and was caught. He burned his Dao foundations and life force in a final attack, yet Chen Fei broke through it and brought down his halberd as Shi Pojun faced death.

• Shi Pojun fled toward the Heavenly Gate while erasing the imprints, but the ruins’ strange force field diverted him and left him lost with seven imprints remaining.
• Chen Fei caught up with Shi Pojun, who invoked the sect’s rules against killing fellow disciples after Chen Fei confronted him over his attempted ambush.
• Shi Pojun admitted he had been wrong, but Chen Fei accused him of fearing death rather than regretting his actions and attacked with the Qian Yuan Halberd.
• Shi Pojun burned his Dao Domain, Great Cang origin, body, and Divine Soul Power to unleash Heaven Burning · Myriad Phenomena Annihilation, but Chen Fei stood firm and forced him back.
• Shi Pojun launched another desperate strike, but Chen Fei pierced the flaming blade’s core and shattered it, then raised his halberd to deliver a final slash.

Chen Fei survived Shi Pojun’s self-destruction, tracked down and destroyed Shi Pojun’s hidden remnant soul, and claimed his concealment treasure. He then followed Cao Feiyu’s imprint, while she waited alone in a cave and prepared to face whoever was approaching.

• Shi Pojun sacrificed his body and remnant soul in a final explosion, but Chen Fei emerged unharmed.
• Chen Fei sensed a hidden contingency and found Shi Pojun’s remnant soul concealed in Profound Nether Heavywater with the Spirit Light Substitute Death Ring.
• Shi Pojun begged to trade Dan Chen Sect secrets for his life, but Chen Fei destroyed his remnant soul and claimed the ring.
• Chen Fei refined the ring and flew toward the direction indicated by Cao Feiyu’s unique imprint.
• Cao Feiyu grieved over Chen Fei and blamed herself for being unable to help him while hiding in a cave.
• When footsteps approached, Cao Feiyu raised her sword, and someone outside called, “Senior Sister Cao, it's me!”

Chen Fei revealed that he had escaped the siege and trapped the Vengeful Demon Wan Guiyuan in layered formations. After proving his identity to Cao Feiyu, he let her join the attack, and she destroyed Wan Guiyuan with the Heavenly Descent Sword Art.

• Cao Feiyu mistook the Chen Fei at the cave entrance for a possible Vengeful Demon and prepared to attack him.
• A second Chen Fei appeared and revealed that the first was Wan Guiyuan in disguise, then used the Array Puppet to trap Wan Guiyuan in layered formations.
• Chen Fei proved his identity by displaying the Xuan Yu Realm aura, which resonated with Cao Feiyu's jade pendant.
• Cao Feiyu entered the formations and attacked Wan Guiyuan with the Heavenly Descent Sword Art while the Array Puppet weakened his defenses.
• Wan Guiyuan tried to condense into a demonic sphere and self-destruct, but Cao Feiyu's World Purification strike destroyed him.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu survived the battle with Wan Guiyuan, shared the Vengeful Demon’s origin, and found a safe place to recover. After explaining how he escaped the earlier ambush, Chen Fei studied the ruins’ guide and planned to explore a nearby side hall once Cao Feiyu was ready.

• Chen Fei withdrew the array after killing Wan Guiyuan, and Cao Feiyu expressed her relief at finding him alive.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu flew to a mountain, where Chen Fei confirmed the area was safe and divided Wan Guiyuan’s origin between them.
• Cao Feiyu asked how Chen Fei had escaped Shi Pojun and the others, and Chen Fei demonstrated the Nine Shadows Illusion Array as part of his explanation.
• Cao Feiyu began healing while Chen Fei extracted Status Fragments from Wan Guiyuan’s origin and studied the illustrated guide to the Ancient Heavenly Court Ruins.
• Chen Fei decided to explore the nearest silver-marked side hall after Cao Feiyu’s injuries stabilized, then began regulating his own condition.

Cao Feiyu recovered enough to fight, and Chen Fei led her toward palace ruins while avoiding other cultivators. After witnessing Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan destroy a Vengeful Demon, Chen Fei used an Array Puppet to restrain another demon so Cao Feiyu could attack it; she then asked him to identify the two cultivators they had seen.

• Cao Feiyu recovered from her injuries, and Chen Fei said he could locate palace sites that might contain Dao Crystals, spiritual materials, or ancient inheritances.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu avoided several battles as they traveled through the ruins toward a large cluster of buildings.
• They saw Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan fighting a Vengeful Demon, but withdrew rather than interfere.
• Wu Jianghan and Zhu Xingyan combined their sword and saber arts to destroy the Vengeful Demon and collect its origin.
• Chen Fei trapped another Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Vengeful Demon with his Array Puppet while Cao Feiyu attacked its exposed weaknesses with her Heavenly Descent Sword Art.
• Cao Feiyu asked Chen Fei which sect Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan belonged to.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu defeated a Vengeful Demon, then returned to the marked ruins and found a hidden spatial entrance. Beyond it, Chen Fei discovered a palace containing more than ten million Dao Crystals and a Jade Box holding a Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material.

• Chen Fei identified the fighters as Taiheng Sect disciples while Cao Feiyu attacked the Vengeful Demon inside the formation.
• The Vengeful Demon burned its Origin Demonic Qi and exploded, but Chen Fei's Black Tortoise Mountain-Suppressing Barrier protected Cao Feiyu long enough for her to divert the attack and kill it.
• Cao Feiyu divided the Vengeful Demon Origin with Chen Fei, and they returned to the collapsed pavilion to investigate the marked location.
• Chen Fei used the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror and spatial force to reveal a hidden Space Entrance, then sent the Array Puppet through it.
• The Array Puppet opened a palace door and revealed a vast store of Dao Crystals and a Jade Box containing a Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu collected tens of millions of Dao Crystals and a sixteenth-order low-grade status spiritual material from a hidden hall, then opened a teleportation passage to another treasure hall guarded by a mid-stage Great Cang Realm Vengeful Demon. Outside the concealed palace, Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan returned and began searching for its entrance.

• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu entered the secret hall, collected the Dao Crystals, and found a Chaos Light Cluster that Chen Fei stored as their shared treasure.
• Chen Fei activated a Teleportation Formation in a mural, revealing another hall with Dao Crystals, a Jade Box, and the aura of another sixteenth-order low-grade status spiritual material.
• Chen Fei sent the Array Puppet ahead, but a mid-stage Great Cang Realm Vengeful Demon burst into the hall and attacked as Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu entered.
• Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan returned to the collapsed pavilions after Zhu Xingyan recognized the area from the Vengeful Demon's memories and concluded a hidden palace was nearby.
• Zhu Xingyan opened his Crimson Sun Delusion Breaking Pupil and searched the area for the concealed entrance.

Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan found the hidden hall, but discovered that two Dan Chen Sect disciples had already taken its treasures and escaped through a mural portal. After Jiang Mushan examined the mural, he identified it as a key to a chain of secret halls leading toward a greater opportunity.

• Zhu Xingyan tore open a concealed Space Gate and entered the ancient hall with Wu Jianghan, where they found empty floors marked by the indentations of removed treasures.
• Zhu Xingyan identified traces linking the missing treasures to the two Dan Chen Sect disciples and recognized that they had left through a portal concealed in the mural.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu sensed Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan probing the closed portal from the other side, while Zhu Xingyan failed to reopen it and raged at the stone wall.
• Wu Jianghan sent an emergency message to Jiang Mushan, who arrived and examined the mural after Zhu Xingyan explained what had happened.
• Jiang Mushan identified the mural as a Chain Lock Key Diagram that linked secret hall nodes and said the chain might lead to a more important opportunity in the ruins.

Jiang Mushan failed to activate the mural portal while Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu opened another route to a treasure hall and narrowly escaped a powerful guardian demon. The demon, Wei Yelan, was left furious and began piercing its own chest after the portal closed.

• Jiang Mushan triggered the mural’s spatial ripples but could not stabilize a portal, so he continued studying the restriction while Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan waited.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu defeated a Mid-stage Vengeful Demon, collected its Dao Crystals, and activated the mural to open another portal.
• Chen Fei sent an Array Puppet through the portal, where it retrieved a Jade Box, an Inheritance Stone, and nearly eight million Dao Crystals from the hall.
• Wei Yelan, a Late Stage Peak Vengeful Demon, burst into the hall and attacked the Array Puppet, but Chen Fei recovered the treasures and closed the portal just in time.
• Wei Yelan roared in fury after the portal vanished, then pierced its own chest with its claws.

Wei Yelan used his essence blood to track Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu through the mural, forcing them to flee into an empty hall after Chen Fei disrupted their trail. As Wei Yelan resumed the hunt, an Octagonal Platform appeared in the hall with two Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Materials.

• Wei Yelan used his essence blood to activate the mural and open a portal toward Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu.
• Chen Fei resisted Wei Yelan's interference and opened a portal to an unfamiliar, apparently empty great hall.
• Chen Fei sent the Array Puppet through the portal to check the hall, then fled there with Cao Feiyu as Wei Yelan forced open a channel into their original hall.
• Chen Fei disrupted the mural's record of their aura and destination before the portal closed, preventing Wei Yelan from immediately tracing them.
• A golden Octagonal Platform appeared in the new hall, releasing fluctuations from two Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Materials.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu investigated a mysterious platform that erased energy and immobilized anything that entered its boundary, then discovered that throwing unpowered spiritwood could dislodge the jade boxes. After verifying the treasures showed no obvious traps, Chen Fei stored one Status Spiritual Material and its box in his Space Grid.

• Chen Fei used the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror on the Glazed White Jade High Platform, but it revealed no illusion or flaw.
• Chen Fei tested the platform with the Array Puppet, and its attacks vanished while the puppet and Cao Feiyu's incarnation became unresponsive inside the boundary.
• Chen Fei threw Sinking Water Ironwood without origin power, using it to knock the Jade Boxes off the platform and send them to an ordinary puppet.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu opened the boxes and found two Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Materials, while remaining wary of a trap.
• After inspecting the boxes and treasures for hidden formations, Talisman Seals, or strange energies, Chen Fei stored one treasure and its box in his Space Grid.

After touching the Stone Tablet Mural, Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu were swept into a space-time passage and attacked by a powerful soul illusion. Chen Fei briefly resisted with the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror, but awoke in a new scene as an armored general facing an army at Duanlong Cliff, with Cao Feiyu pleading for surrender.

• Chen Fei confirmed that both portions of Status Spiritual Material remained unchanged inside the Space Grid, and he and Cao Feiyu prepared to leave the great hall.
• When Chen Fei touched the Stone Tablet Mural, ripples spread through the hall and swept him and Cao Feiyu into a bizarre space-time passage.
• Chen Fei sensed that removing the Status Spiritual Material could trigger worse consequences, then used the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror to protect Cao Feiyu and himself from the passage's soul-targeting illusion.
• A deep explosion shattered the Spirit Light Mirror's protective light, but Chen Fei clung to its core true intent and regained a trace of consciousness.
• Chen Fei awoke at the edge of a cliff in heavy armor, facing thousands of soldiers as Cao Feiyu pleaded with him to surrender and a General threatened to kill him at Duanlong Cliff.

Chen Fei remained trapped in an illusion that sealed away his soul and cultivation, but he used a jade pendant and the Space Grid to reveal flaws in its world. When the Silver Armored General ordered an attack, Chen Fei held off the army with his mortal strength and spear, protecting Cao Feiyu until the enemy sounded a retreat horn.

• Chen Fei found his soul and primordial energy sealed, leaving him with only his mortal body's strength and a faint fragment of spiritual awareness.
• Chen Fei stored the jade pendant in the Space Grid, discovered it became primordial energy, and used it to perceive cracks in the illusion.
• After the Silver Armored General demanded his surrender, Chen Fei provoked him, and the general ordered the Vanguard Military Formation to attack.
• Chen Fei exploited gaps in the formation and fought off waves of soldiers, killing many while preventing anyone from reaching Cao Feiyu.
• Cao Feiyu watched Chen Fei withstand the army and developed an intense feeling of dependence and excitement toward him.
• A horn sounded from the enemy's central camp, ordering the troops to retreat.

Chen Fei protected Cao Feiyu from Lu Shaoyuan’s army, then escaped down Duanlong Cliff by exploiting flaws in the illusion. Their landing triggered a new, more powerful illusion that restored some of Chen Fei’s cultivation before an unseen voice accused him of practicing demonic arts.

• Chen Fei deflected the army’s volleys of arrows while protecting Cao Feiyu, then realized Lu Shaoyuan contained the essence of a Great Cang Realm demon cultivator.
• As Lu Shaoyuan prepared to burn them out, Chen Fei seized Cao Feiyu and jumped with her from Duanlong Cliff.
• Chen Fei used his spear to deflect arrows and exploit flaws in the illusion, slowing their fall until they landed safely in Duanlong Valley.
• Silver ripples transformed the world and overwhelmed Cao Feiyu’s spiritual sense, while Chen Fei resisted the illusion’s power with his Spirit Light Mirror.
• Chen Fei awoke atop a cloud-wreathed peak in cultivator’s robes, found that some of his power and new comprehension had returned, and heard a voice accuse him of secretly cultivating demonic arts.

Chen Fei faced dozens of Sun Moon Realm cultivators in a second illusion and used his short staff to shatter their attacks and overwhelm them with a sword formation. As the illusion collapsed, Cao Feiyu stood behind him and the force that reset his consciousness began to surge again.

• Dozens of righteous-path cultivators surrounded Chen Fei and attacked him with a flaming meteor, while Cao Feiyu appeared and rushed to shield him.
• Mysterious Yin Old Monster intensified the meteor and persuaded the others not to spare Cao Feiyu, but Chen Fei stepped in front of her and pierced the attack with his short staff.
• Chen Fei's strike shattered Red Flame True Person's attack and sent sword intent back through their connection, heavily injuring Red Flame True Person.
• Mysterious Yin Old Monster urged the cultivators to form the Mystic Heaven Demon-Subduing Formation, but Chen Fei summoned a hundred-li sword formation rooted in the illusion's rules.
• The sword formation dissolved the cultivators' combined attack and killed them, after which the illusory world began to collapse.
• As the force that reset Chen Fei's consciousness returned, Cao Feiyu let out an involuntary moan.

Chen Fei entered a new illusion as Emperor Jinghe, where Cao Feiyu was being pressured to take her own life to appease the army and save the collapsing dynasty. He took her hand despite the ministers’ protests, then challenged the claims of approaching foreign enemies.

• Chen Fei resisted the illusion’s sleep-inducing force and reasoned that the successive worlds were stages of an Ancient Heavenly Court trial that rewarded cultivation insights.
• Chen Fei awoke as Emperor Jinghe in a palace chamber and learned that rebels and northern barbarians threatened the capital while his officials blamed Cao Feiyu for the dynasty’s troubles.
• Cao Feiyu approached a stool and hanging silk to take her own life as ministers demanded that Chen Fei execute the so-called demon consort.
• Chen Fei ignored the ministers’ pleas, took Cao Feiyu’s hand, and refused to let her proceed.
• A general reported that enemy forces were less than a hundred li away, while soldiers outside chanted for the execution of the demon consort.
• Chen Fei calmly asked where the foreign enemies were and said he would see them himself.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu entered the ninth illusion, a doomed battle on the eve of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s destruction. Chen Fei rejected the illusion’s script and shattered its structure, leaving Cao Feiyu’s memories and awareness restored as the world collapsed.

• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu arrived in the Ancient Heavenly Court as Fifteenth Order heavenly soldiers, facing an approaching enemy force that asked, “Where is the Heavenly Emperor?”
• A soul impact struck the assembled heavenly soldiers, and Chen Fei saw Cao Feiyu suffer as she struggled to withstand it.
• Chen Fei decided the trial was too dangerous to continue, went to Cao Feiyu, and took her hand to ease her pain.
• When a Divine General condemned Chen Fei for leaving his post, the illusion twisted and its hostile nature became clear.
• Chen Fei used a stored Space Grid strike to tear apart the illusion, causing the Ancient Heavenly Court to collapse.
• As the world fell, Cao Feiyu recovered memories of Chen Fei protecting her through the previous eight illusions and recognized him.

Chen Fei devoured a Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Material and broke through to the Great Cang Realm Late Stage, triggering a transformation in the Void Return Realm. As Cao Feiyu began refining her own spiritual material, Wei Yelan arrived in his true body at the Great Hall.

• The high platform exploded, and Chen Fei shielded Cao Feiyu from the blast before the Stone Tablet Mural began releasing Wei Yelan's aura.
• Chen Fei gave Cao Feiyu a Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Material to refine, then compressed and swallowed another one himself.
• Chen Fei broke through to the Great Cang Realm Late Stage, and the Void Return Realm strengthened amid auspicious phenomena.
• Chen Fei consumed 1,080,000 Dao Crystals to advance toward the Great Cang Realm Late Stage Peak while Cao Feiyu began breaking through.
• Wei Yelan tore open a Space Rift and descended in his true body into the Great Hall.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Wei Yelan after both he and Cao Feiyu reached the Great Cang Realm Late Stage. Wei Yelan forced himself into the Great Cang Realm Peak and launched a desperate attack, but Chen Fei exposed its flaws and struck him down.

• Wei Yelan sensed Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu had reached the Great Cang Realm Late Stage and attacked Chen Fei with his giant axe.
• Chen Fei knocked Wei Yelan's axe away with one punch, shattered his left arm, and forced him to stagger back bleeding.
• Wei Yelan used a forbidden art to force his strength into the Great Cang Realm Peak, reclaimed his axe, and unleashed Soul-Splitting World-Destroying Slash.
• Chen Fei activated the Heaven Swallowing Divine Body, saw the flaws in Wei Yelan's strike, and casually deflected the axe with his palm.
• Chen Fei followed with a punch that shattered Wei Yelan's right arm and slammed into the center of his head.

Chen Fei completely annihilated Wei Yelan after the vengeful demon destroyed his body and tried to escape through the hall’s polluted restrictions. Zhu Xingyan and the others retreated after witnessing Chen Fei’s strength, then discussed finding new opportunities and stronger allies.

• Chen Fei killed Wei Yelan’s demonic body with a single punch, but Wei Yelan split into streams of demonic qi and tried to flee.
• Chen Fei froze the hall’s space, gathered the demonic qi, and annihilated Wei Yelan’s remnant soul and resentment with another punch.
• Zhu Xingyan, Jiang Mushan, and Wu Jianghan arrived through a teleportation portal, recognized Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu’s strength, and withdrew without a fight.
• Cao Feiyu warned Chen Fei that the Taiyan Sect disciples had likely arrived with bad intentions, and Chen Fei said they had retreated after seeing his strength.
• Zhu Xingyan and Wu Jianghan lamented missing two Sixteenth Order High-grade Status Spiritual Materials, while Jiang Mushan urged them to seek other opportunities in the ruins.
• Jiang Mushan proposed avoiding Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu or finding stronger helpers.